Re: Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870

Originally Posted by AlanRick

Rats.

Today's Hardy LTS security update has killed my wlan. Now I'll have to find time at the weekend to go through the whole rigmarole of downloading driver source (from windows xp - long live dual boot), compiling, and trying to get it up and running again.

Well, thanks to Razor's wiki this only wasted two hours of my weekend.
Observations:
1. The wiki works well for Hardy however the downloaded make file did not work this time round. Somehow the libraries weren't found. However, I followed the instructions to change the original ralink make file and then it worked fine.

2. I somehow messed things up after I'd got it working I'm not sure if that was to do with installing from a multi-user pc or what.
I got out of the mess by copying the source files to my opt folder before compiling (instead of a user's home), following the whole process until "Networkmanager should see your available networks within one minute.". At that point I waited a minute or two before rebooting (even though wlan hadn't reacted) without trying out the mount/unmount instructions. After the boot everything works ok for all pc users.

Many thanks Razor for this wiki,
Alan

Last edited by AlanRick; October 25th, 2009 at 12:37 PM.
Reason: added more clarity for anyone else needing to solve this in Hardy

Re: Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870

Hi,

I seem to be getting the same problems as verto8 in earlier posts. My Belkin N+ (F5D8055 v1) wireless adapter in which I just bought the other day from Play.com is not being recognized in iwconfig or ifconfig.

I am using the latest drivers downloaded from the ralink mentioned in the earlier posts and have renamed the old rt2870sta.ko to rt2879sta.ko.old.

Re: Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870

I think one part of the problem is, that the 2870 module is at V 1.4.0.0 only (the actual one on ralink website is 2.2...). For example, my USB ID of my device (Buffalo WLI--UC-G300N isn't included yet in this version, however by default in 2.2

As a result, even after blacklisting I won't be able to connect as the correct driver won't be loaded.

There is only one way to get that working in my eyes: we need to be able to compile the original ralink source which won't compile at the moment. Unfortunately, I don't neither why nor how to fix it...

I hope either Ralink or Ubuntu will provide us with an updated version very soon - and in the meantime I wouldn't mind some geeky work-arounds if anybody has one to share!